The Maine Medical Association was founded on April 28, 1853, near this site at what was then the Tontine Hotel, where 27 physicians met to organize the association, which has existed continually to this day: Dr. James McKeen, Chairman; Dr. Israel Putnam; Dr. Stephen Whitmore; Dr. C.W. Whitmore; Dr. Richard P. Jenness; Dr. Ashur Ellis; Dr. John D. Lincoln; Dr. John Mathews; Dr. H.H. Hill; Dr. Joseph W. Ellis; Dr. G.S. Palmer; Dr. Cyrus Kendrick Jr.; Dr. Andrew Fuller; Dr. George E. Brickett; Dr. Abial Libby; Dr. John Hartwell; Dr. Alonzo Garcelon; Dr. N.R. Boutelle; Dr. John Benson; Dr. J.F. Stanley; Dr. Isaac Lincoln; Dr. R.W. Lawson; Dr. Amos Nourse; Dr. J.W. Toward; Dr. Cyrus Briggs; Dr. T.G. Stockbridge; and Dr. Nathaniel T. Palmer.